A5041149634- Forest Management and Policy
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Cambodian History and Society
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
University of Edinburgh
2020-2023
Abstract Aim Tree crowns determine light interception, carbon and water exchange. Thus, understanding the factors causing tree crown allometry to vary at stand level matters greatly for development of future vegetation modelling calibration remote sensing products. Nevertheless, we know little about large‐scale variation determinants in tropical allometry. In this study, explored continental scaling exponents site‐specific assessed their relationships with environmental stand‐level variables...
Seasonally dry woodlands are the dominant land cover across southern Africa. They biodiverse, structurally complex, and important for ecosystem service provision. Species composition structure vary region producing a diverse array of woodland types. The Huíla plateau in southwest Angola represent extreme southwestern extent miombo ecoregion markedly drier than other within this ecoregion. remain understudied, however, compared to further east We aimed elucidate tree diversity found Angolan...
Savannas cover one‐fifth of the Earth's surface, harbour substantial biodiversity, and provide a broad range ecosystem services to hundreds millions people. The community composition trees in tropical moist forests varies with climate, but whether same processes structure communities disturbance‐driven savannas remains relatively unknown. We investigate how biodiversity is structured over large environmental disturbance gradients woodlands eastern southern Africa. use tree inventory data...
Abstract Cambodia is facing widespread deforestation due to agriculture, logging, land grabbing, and infrastructure. The implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Forest Degradation) projects has become a key strategy protect at-risk forests using the sale verified emission reductions as financing; generated by reducing forest loss against counterfactual baseline scenarios. We test series ex-post assessment methodologies on three Cambodian two geospatial datasets (one...
Abstract The implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) projects has become a key Nature Based Solutions (NBS) strategy to protect at-risk forests using the sale verified emission reductions (carbon credits) as financing, generated by reducing forest loss against counterfactual baseline scenarios. Controversy over reasonableness such scenarios thrown this nascent market mechanism into disarray. While new technical approaches baseline-setting that...
Independent retrospective analyses of the effectiveness reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) projects are vital to ensure climate change benefits being delivered. A recent study in Science by West et al. (1) appeared therefore be a timely alert that majority operating 2010s failed reduce rates. Unfortunately, their analysis suffered from major flaws choice underlying data, resulting poorly matched unstable counterfactual scenarios. These were compounded calculation errors,...
Independent retrospective analyses of the effectiveness reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) projects are vital to ensure climate change benefits being delivered. A recent study in Science by West et al. (1) appeared therefore be a timely alert that majority operating 2010s failed reduce rates. Unfortunately, their analysis suffered from major flaws choice underlying data, resulting poorly matched unstable counterfactual scenarios. These were compounded calculation errors,...